Schneider Weisse Tap X Mein Nelson Sauvin

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

(Bottle 32209) Clear gold with a massive fluffy cap floating on top....... its taking way to long to settle down. Aroma is mild.... I was hoping for so much more. Nose is full of wheaty yeast with a vanilla chaser. Uggggg so disappointing, where the hell is the flavour??? Taste like a big Belgian with a mild grape like hop presence. Alcohol starts to show up in the finish...... why? Light body with a very lively carbonation....... to light. Been so very long since I've been let down this much. Where is the flavour?? Where is the awesome??

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Bowling pin-champagne green-brown bottle with a cap. Pours a hazy golden colour with a frothy white head, great retention and soapy lace. Smells like a hefeweizen at first, with the wheat and notes of bananas, cloves and hints of bubble gum. Then, the hop shows up and adds to things. Nice mix for the mouthfeel, between wet and creamy (soft carbonation). Eventually, aromas of fruits come out (passion fruit, orange). The taste is pretty much the same as the nose, but a little milder. The hop seems to be a little too aggressive for the style at first, but does calm down and fit well with the rest. A pretty interesting, refreshing weizen with the added hop (more than usual). Happy 25th birthday ABT Cafés of Holland.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Sampled 3/23/2012. This weizen bock pours a medium orange gold color from a 750ml bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head. The aroma is fruity and sweet, grapey and spicy. A medium bodied weizen bock. The malts are fruit, grainy and sweet. The hops are grape, grape seeds and spicy. Decent, but very soft carbonation. Some orange and citrus flavors really complement the Nelson Sauvin hops. A really interesting combination. Very smooth tastings. Hides the alcohol very well. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet with some bitterness at the very end.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

June 2, 2012
LCBO Outlet #217 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada – Queen’s Quay)
750ml bottle
7.3% ABV
$8.95
The beer poured a hazy medium gold colour with a thin white cap. The aroma was wheat malt, banana, clove, and undefinable spices. The mouthfeel was medium bodied with medium carbonation. The flavour was wheat malt, sweet malt, light fruits, and weak spices.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Crown-capped champagne bottle – decants a lightly clouded light gold colored weizen in my glass. Decent puffy 2 finger cap lasts and laces. Light effervescence. Aroma is fairly modest but there is a defined wheat malt-fruit-clove aroma with an underlying vinous quality. Fairly sort moth with a light fluid character. Flavor is also demure but this is part of the intended character of this unique weizen – front side has the appearance of the standard Hefeweiss flavors, the clove phenols, banana-fruity esters and a light citrus presence – mid palate is where this beer becomes unique – instead of the standard hop bittering you get a mild tartness like raw white grape skin, not over powering but definitely present and this makes the finish not so dry but much like a white wine spritzer – fluid, tart but not puckering dry like most wiezens. Absolutely no hint of the alcohol in it. If this was the profile/character the brewer was attempting to produce, they succeeded in spades. Many will say this is a weak weizen bock but this ignores is unique mildness and vinous qualities.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Shared bottle at local tasting, as Schneider Weisse Tap X Mein Nelson Sauvin. ABV is 7.3%. Cloudy orange colour, moderate white head. Moderate aroma, notes of cloves and crushed gooseberries. Spicy flavour, very strong notes of cloves, also notes of Nelson Sauvin hops, but not dominant. Unusual, interesting, and pleasant to drink.